Re: ACTION 1361 Updates to application and document roles ready for final review from Joseph Scheuhammer on 2015-11-12 (public-pfwg@w3.org from November 2015)

From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:33:40 -0500
To: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>, "'PF'" <public-pfwg@w3.org>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <5644A344.1070009@alum.mit.edu>

On 2015-11-12 7:27 AM, Matt King wrote:
> 3. Change application elements from landmarks to structures.

I don't know if it matters.  It might.

For AXAPI, role="application" will remain a landmark.  The mapping is 
(note the sub-role):

- AXRole: AXGroup
- AXSubrole: AXLandmarkApplication
- AXRoleDescription: 'application'

That means ATs that hook into AXAPI will see elements marked with 
role="application" as landmarks.  An example is VoiceOver, and maybe 
Orca with WebKitGTK.  But other ATs on other platforms will no longer 
see a "landmark" semantic.

Is this an interoperability problem?

-- 
;;;;joseph.

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Received on Thursday, 12 November 2015 14:34:01 UTC